Word: guard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forty members of a New Hampshire Air National Guard security unit were standing by at Pease Air Force Base about 15 miles away, at the request of Gov. Judd Gregg...
...when he shot to death two New York City subway riders (BABY-FACED BUTCHER! cried the headlines). In the eleven years since then, he tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat up a psychiatrist and mailed a death threat to Ronald Reagan. Bosket claims to have...
...Bosket still finds ways to attract attention. While en route to court last month, he kicked a guard who was removing a leg manacle and then shouted to photographers, "Did you get that picture? Did you get that on film?" That act was reminiscent of the time last year when Bosket plunged a makeshift 11- in. knife into the chest of a guard, in full view of a newspaper reporter Bosket had enlisted to write his life story. The guard was critically injured but recovered. "Sensationalism sells newspapers," the baby-faced butcher blithely explains, "and the system responds to violence...
Furthermore, despite the uncertainty as to where the student demonstrations may lead, there is no evidence that the movement is running amuck. Yang Ting (not his real name), a 20-year-old Red Guard in 1966 and now an interpreter, recalls with a shudder the killing and widespread looting during those years. "From the very outset this time, the movement was well organized and the students did not harbor any intention to tear apart the Communist Party." Another positive sign, he says, is that the "students' demands conformed with the wishes and will of the broad masses, especially the calls...
...covered in the slim white protocol books given to the Soviet entourage and the 80 or so reporters who accompanied Gorbachev from Moscow. What the book did cover often proved useless. Gorbachev did not "arrive by car" at Tiananmen Square nor, accompanied by two soldiers of the Chinese honor guard, did "the distinguished guest" lay a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes. And what about that passage on proper behavior at the Beijing Opera? Mikhail and Raisa never enjoyed a night...